French manicures are everywhere you look right now: on Instagram, on the hands of your favourite celebrities, and even on the New York Fashion Week runways and streets. But these are not your average french tips — they're much more fun. Since the swift return of this classic nail-art design, we've seen countless spinoffs of the trend, including the micro-french, glazed-doughnut french, and now, the V-cut french manicure.
"The V-cut manicure is a really fun spin on the traditional french," Tammy Taylor, celebrity manicurist and founder of Tammy Taylor Nails, tells POPSUGAR. The trend gets its name from the shape the lines at the tip of the nail make. "Instead of creating a smile line, you create a deep V, also described as a chevron."
This nail-art trend lends itself to a variety of other nail styles and colours. Depending on how you do it, the intersecting lines at the tip of the nail can look very different. "This can be negative space or filled in with your favourite colour," says Taylor. It's most common for the chevron french manicure to appear on square, ballerina, or coffin-shaped nails, but it also works on oval and round shapes.
This manicure is one you can easily get at the salon, but it's not impossible to re-create at home, either. You simply need to create two long strokes of colour to form the V on a base shade of your choice. There are hacks out there to make this easier: tape is one way to do it; precut nail stencils is another.
To get inspiration for your own V-cut french manicure and discover just how versatile this nail look is, keep scrolling.